Long before Lake Mead became a symbol of drought and decline, its cliffs echoed with the roar of trains carrying materials to build the Hoover Dam. The Historic Railroad Trail follows those abandoned ...

Picture a dusty town frozen in time, where wooden buildings creak in the desert wind and stories of silver miners echo ...

This surreal DIY museum is a must-see if you find yourself exploring the southwestern region of the U.S. and love singular ...

Explore Nevada’s forgotten corners where crumbling buildings and deserted towns are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Explore Arizona’s forgotten ghost towns, where crumbling buildings, silent streets, and desert winds create hauntingly ...

In South Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains lies a mysterious 19th-century tunnel that never fulfilled its promise but continues ...

A Geotab analysis counts more than 500 ghost towns statewide, with the densest cluster in Wilson County near San Antonio.

From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Va., reveals the long pattern of Black Americans burying ...

With the Halloween season upon us, pumpkin patches, haunted houses and corn mazes are popping up all over. This year, in addition to those more typical Halloween festivities, how about also exploring ...

From a half-million symmetrical lakes to a lost gold mine, our national parks and public lands are home to fascinating and ...

From the Monongahela valley To the Mesabi iron range To the coal mines of Appalachia The story’s always the same Seven hundred tons of metal a day Now sir you tell me the wor ...

Santa Cruz County was largely united against slavery, voting for Abraham Lincoln, and fighting to preserve the Union,” writes columnist “But county crime ...